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The Sound of the City: How Urban Noise Shapes Brain and Body in LA

Wende Museum Culver City

A talk and discussion by UCLA professors Nicholas Shapiro and Valerie Tornini Beyond the buzz of studio lights, the din of freeways, the howls of coyotes, and the drone of leaf-blowers, one of Los Angeles' most distinctive sounds comes from above. As the birthplace and global capital of helicopter police patrolling, LA maintains the first...

“Writing Climate Futures”, A Conversation with Bharat Venkat (ISG), David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, & Jonathan Blake

Los Angeles Review of Books and The Berggruen Institute present Writing Climate Futures, featuring David Wallace-Wells, Jenny Offill, ISG faculty Bharat Venkat, and Jonathan Blake. As our planet faces a climate crisis, questions about the role and efficacy of environmental writing assume greater urgency by the day. Through education, envisioning fictitious new worlds, and pushing forward the...